Poky is freely downloadable, being open source software. The Poky metadata itself is distributed under an MIT licence with tools it uses being under various other open source licenses. It is primarily developed by developers at [[http://www.o-hand.com|OpenedHand]] with suitable improvements being pushed back up stream to OpenEmbedded.

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Poky is freely downloadable, being open source software. The Poky metadata itself is distributed under an MIT licence with tools it uses being under various other open source licenses. It is primarily developed by developers at [http://www.o-hand.com OpenedHand] with suitable improvements being pushed back up stream to OpenEmbedded.

Revision as of 08:51, 7 November 2007

Poky is an embedded Linux build system, distribution and developer environment which builds upon OpenEmbedded technologies. Poky's focus is purely on building stable optimised GNOME Embedded type platforms (X11/Matchbox/GTK+) together with a streamlined system layer and cross development environment.

Poky's core consists of a set of metadata describing packages and rules to produce a cross-compiled filesystem for a specified target device. The metadata itself is highly customisable and extensible, and can be tailored to a particular target device's needs.

Through integration with QEMU (both ARM and x86 host virtualisation) or chroot-like tools, Poky provides a unique cross-application development environment.

Poky is freely downloadable, being open source software. The Poky metadata itself is distributed under an MIT licence with tools it uses being under various other open source licenses. It is primarily developed by developers at OpenedHand with suitable improvements being pushed back up stream to OpenEmbedded.